Andy Goldsworthy

•  Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist, who creates, and photographs works that consist of thing he finds in nature. A lot of the time his pieces only exist for short periods of time, for example his sand art, or snow Art. "All of Goldsworthy's artwork is created by responding to natural surroundings and he creates no work that is preconceived. He explores and experiments with a variety of materials which he finds on site such as grass, leaves, stone, wood, clay, ice and snow. Most of his sculpture work is only temporary, or semi-permanent, so he captures many of them with photographs." When creating his work he wants the viewer to become aware of the change that occurs in nature. "I have become aware of how nature is in a state of change and how that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather."
• Andy is successful in portraying this idea of change, by him changing the nature around him, then natural forces change it back, and it shows the beauty of how nature is constantly changing.
  
  
  
  • The form in this peice highlights change in nature by the gradual fade from dark to light leaves, representing changing of the seasons. Andy also just lays the leaves on the ground without any thing holding them down so a simple breeze would create change to his piece.
  
  •  The artists material choice is that of an easily changed medium, Ice. we know that this piece is extremely subject to change because of the fact that it is ice and will soon change from a solid to liquid. This again shows how nature will change the change he has already made.
  
  • This artist intrigues me because of his view on he change of nature, and how he exposes it. I love how he just wanders around until something comes to his mind, and that his work is not preconceived.
  • I would want to work with this artist because who wouldn't want to be able to hang out in nature all day and be able to create art; although it would be hard to create art because I would be so intrigued by what he is doing.
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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
  • http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/goldsworthy.php
  •  http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html